At 02:35 PM 9/11/01, you wrote:
>I think the most amazing thing to me is the coordination of the attacks.
>Four hi-jackings pulled off at the same time and all four succeeded. You
>would have expected at least one to fail. Two crashes within 20 minutes of
>each other. How could they have done that?
>
>This is pure speculation: I am imagining that the crash outside of
>Pittsburgh was a situation where the pilot of the plane deliberately crashed
>the airplane to avoid another attack, perhaps on the Sears Tower in Chicago.
>I know that if I was one of those pilots that's what I would have done. I
>certainly would have told the terrorists that they would have to kill me
>before I would deliberately crash an aircraft into a building.
>
> - John
That was my first thought, too: that the crew regained control long enough
to crash the plane.
Others have suggested that after the first attacks, when this plane was
seen to be so far off course, it was shot down.
--Ronn! :)
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